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Ep 013 - War Weren’t Declared
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Jun 24, 2025
6/23/25 - War Weren’t Declared -Lucky episode #13! For the main topic, Doug and Todd discuss the attacks on Iran, the correlation to the Iraq War, and the greater geo-political implications. In News of the Week, we have good news for Mahmoud Khalil, and bad news for anyone who uses cellphones, national parks, or marijuana. For What’s Geek this Week, we’ve got TV shows from video games, TV shows from comic books, and TV shows from old TV shows.
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hey Doug what do you want to do tonight same thing we do every week Todd try to
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record a podcast [Music]
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my brain's a rocket can't sit still thoughts collide they always spill a
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million voices shout my name never boring never tame
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hd we're running wild focus fading chaotic child
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turn the volume up take a ride
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in this crazy storm i can't hide
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ladies and gentlemen will you please welcome the host of ADHDP Doug and Todd
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hey everybody welcome back to ADHDP the attention deficit hyperactive politics
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podcast with Doug and Todd i'm Doug that's Todd yep how you doing today Todd doing good doing good it's been warm
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today so I got all the fans going so if there's any background noise I apologize guys this is This is how shelter life I
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live i had no idea it was warm today i've been I've been in the basement where it stays cold i wish I had a
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basement it's been kind of overcast and it was a little sprinkly this morning um
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well yeah I had no idea it was warm out today let's see what it says it's just how I
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like it thank you very much according to my phone it is 77 where I'm
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at in Reon Washington yeah it is always warmer there than here
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because I'm out here on the middle of the water yeah you're closer to the water than I am i'm I'm not that far from Lake Washington but we don't really
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get that kind of cool breeze that you guys get over there on the peninsula about the same as the the Puget Sound
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yeah yeah it's It's a whole two degrees cooler over here it's only 75
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so how was your Sunday we uh we saw each other on Saturday we Yeah we we we went down to Summer Con we went there we
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attempted to go but I I didn't think they would be sold out cuz you know they're I I didn't know that they could
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sell out but considering how many great guests they had this year I I guess I
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shouldn't be surprised so yeah we I mean it was still a fun misadventure anyways
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getting to uh hang out getting out of the house got to actually see what the weather was like yeah it was nice and uh
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cool on Saturday it was It was a nice day overcast there was a little bit of a shower you know a little bit of rain and
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uh Yeah yeah we were hoping to get some audio maybe some video get some interviews down at the summer con but uh
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well best late plans which was no plan at all so yeah I I honestly paid it by ear i wanted to buy tickets months ago
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but like every time I got paid like my extra cash went to like important things
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like overdue bills and food and gas and things like that so well and I told you
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I messed up too because I I knew it was coming and I was planning to get us passes and I just doofed on when it was
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coming i thought it was later in the summer i It was Yeah it's always like second or third week in June and uh Yeah
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you know last year I went and it was it was it was a it was a blast i got to meet so many people last year um year
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before me and my previous um podcast co-host we got to meet Jesse the Body
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Ventura that was a cool That was a cool chat we didn't think to record it but we
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uh we talked i don't know why we have Jesse Ventur i was like I was like I bet you I can get him to talk for longer
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than a couple minutes he's like "How do you figure?" He's like "Just mention his show." uh conspiracy theory and he'll
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tell you all about how it's not on the internet you can't find it anywhere and I said "Actually um I think the
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first couple seasons are on Amazon." Goes "Yeah yeah oh well you know it's I
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think it's the third season where we talked about like uh MK Ultra and there
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a couple other things." And said "Yeah that season's not available anywhere." I'm like "Okay I I'll get when I get
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home I'll look." And uh it was not available through Amazon but it was available somewhere else you had to buy
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the individual episodes you couldn't buy the entire series but you know but you could buy the individual episodes and I
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was like "Oh well it is there you just have to pay more." So yeah and um last year I uh my my
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roommate Christina had a a a handmade uh clay pendant that was uh in the like the
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his head uh from the Beauty and the Beast TV series from the 80s uh Ron
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Pearlman and uh it cost like $80 to get it signed and I stood in line for like
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an hour and a half and when he got there he was just he looked beat he looked
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like he he had been up since you you mentioned this the the crackass had done yeah oh I did okay yeah um but yeah I
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just said "Thanks for being here." And he looked at me and he was like he's like "Thank you." I'm like "Well I mean I you know
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I'm paying for the privilege." So yeah but yeah yeah i guess they should be
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thanking you damn it well I think I think I might have been the first person to to to thank him for for coming out
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because I mean he just he looked exhausted when he walked up so well that's a good tip for anybody
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going to a con be be overly nice to the people that are showing up there because they they're dealing with a ton of
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people and if you're you know if you're a little specially nice maybe they do something special for you i don't know if being like overly nice be be uh be
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legitimate don't don't be super sugary don't be so saccharine that it's like fake it feels fake or false no no but I
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just mean be appreciative be respectful of their time yeah yeah you know treat them like they're your like they're your
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personal show monkey or something right yeah oh so uh and then Yeah so after that
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failed we got to go over to the 8bit arcade in Reton yes the barcade the barcade in downtown Ron on third uh yeah
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play some old school games they have uh some beer and pizzas it was all right as an alternative to a con it's it's it's
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it's essentially like an old school arcade with pinball machines and and upright and and cocktail table arcade
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machines and it also can it also serves alcohol so it's a barcade yeah it's it's
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a dope place i love it it's been around for a long time now i remember I remember counting down the days to when it was going to open i remember I
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remember opening because I was living I was actually living in Kirkland I think when it first
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opened but then I I lost that place and end up staying occasionally at my girlfriend's house at the time and she
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lived in Northron so we would go down there every once in a while and uh yeah
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no that's the only one left in in King County there used to uh or at least on this side of the water uh there used to
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be a bar up in Everett called the AFK Tavern And then they had a they had one of them
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in Chuckila Reton area too south Reton yeah yeah be elixir AFK's Elixirs and
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Eeries they opened uh I think 20 2014 I
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think and then was Yeah I did stand up there once yeah oh yeah i remember you talking about doing that um I actually
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did uh I went there when they had a rock band where you could play on stage and
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uh they had they had an Xbox 360 and all the all the equipment you know the the guitar the bass the singer microphone
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and the the drum kit and uh I think the one in Ron talk about Yeah elixir is an eater yeah the former location of the
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cake yeah yeah it's now like an Asian restaurant u Yeah i think I think you were there along with Silus on the It
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was part of Silus's Yeah nerd show yeah yeah and uh so yeah it was uh it wasn't
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the night that you guys were there but it was another night but it was using the same stage but yeah no it was cool
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there's video of me singing Ace of Spades there terrible singer but I figure if I'm
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gonna if I'm going to sing terribly I might as well do it as as Lemie so yeah there you go he also has kind of a rough
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voice all right okay well uh anything happened in the news this week Todd anything you
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hear about oh man so uh apparently uh the president uh authorized some drums
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um bombs to be dropped and apparently he didn't hit his intended target but he
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destroyed a bunch of [ __ ] so well from what I I mean I guess the
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reports I'm seeing so what obviously we're talking about is Trump uh Trump
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authorizing the strikes against the Iranian nuclear facilities um as far as
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I know he they did hit their targets of course they would say that i mean I haven't heard but I haven't
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heard anybody say that they missed they uh you're the first person I've heard yeah i don't remember where i think
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initially I heard it on CNN where they that they were they were intending to hit specific like bomb making places and
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I guess they the either either they hit the wrong building or
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they hit the place and it was empty so is kind of what I what I heard so Oh
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well that's the I I just I I was going to get into it well we will get into it um but that's the pictures I've seen
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have showed basically uh bunker buster entry locations it did show a building that was not targeted um that was on the
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surface but apparently the things they were going for deep underground so that's why they were using the B the
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bunker buster bombs um they're claiming total success again Trump administration
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so of course they are um and even if any administration always claims total success uh mission accomplished remember
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that um but uh speaking of mission accomplished uh this whole this whole
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rabble rousing around Iran and it's changed again here already overnight um
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so we kind of had to redo this last minute so going to be a little more sparse and a little more halfhazard than
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even usually is um but uh but uh just
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this entire ramp up to War with Iran just listening to everybody try to justify it is so eerily reminiscent of
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Iraq in 2003 which is why why we're titling this episode didn't we already
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do this 22 goddamn years ago right um
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but it's it's because if we if let's rewind to 2003 and just remember what was going on so um parallels from then
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to now so we had just had 911 right and Israel they recently had what Barack
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Obama called their 911 what a lot of supporters of Israel have called Israel's 911 was the October 7th attacks
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of was that 24 or is that going back to 23 now i couldn't tell you
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i gotta refresh my memory on that one it's just all time is melding into one block where so
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it says we're streaming but I don't see any on our YouTube channel where am I streaming to
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uh oh it's a mystery hold on let's take a look here
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yeah I've not gotten any notification that we're streaming
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yeah I haven't I'm still I'm recording but it's it doesn't appear to be actually streaming so
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let's I'm still recording i'm going stop that
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and can I do this while recording still
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do you want me to keep going while you work on this keep going yeah yeah okay so and yes it is it has been since 2023
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it was when the Israel Hamas war began after the attacks uh the darkest day in
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Jewish history since the Holocaust is what some have called it and and just like after 9/11 there was
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legitimate righteous outrage and people wanted something to be done um the war
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the siege on Palestine has not been the exact same thing as you know the
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Afghanistan war but in terms of loyalists to the country like they support it you know we a lot of us were
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in favor of Afghanistan in terms of we have to do something and this is who they're telling us is at fault even
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though at the time we tried telling them hey these were all Saudi nationals that carried out 911 but but the point being
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using the the emotional uh the emotional
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eruption around 911 they directed that to Iraq and now Israel seems to have
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done the same thing using the emotional turmoil surrounding the October 7th attacks and now they're attacking Iran
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as part of a larger conflict and it really is I mean it really is Israel's 911 in terms of the way that they're
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just using it for political gain rather than an actual attempt to make the world a safer place um so going back to 2003
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we will remind ourselves uh from britannica.com uh in 2002 the new US President George W
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bush argued that the vulnerability of the United States following the September 11th attacks combined with
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Iraq's alleged continued possession of and manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction an accusation that was later
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proved erroneous and its support for terrorist groups uh which according to the Bush administration included
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al-Qaeda the perpetrators of the September 11th attacks so it made disarming disarming Iraq a new priority
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it's exactly what they're saying about Iran now is oh well they are they have a nuclear program that's imminently going
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to attack us and then if we try and say well that's three years away at best how
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is this an imminent attack they start citing their promotion of terrorism and the fact that they aren't uh on board
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with with fighting various you know ISIS and different groups yeah um it's it's
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really is just the same buildup all over again um
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and just like how Iraq appeared to comply with the resolution uh in but in early 2003 President Bush and British
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Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that Iraq was actually continuing to hinder UN inspections and that it still
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retained proscribed weapons other world leaders such as French President Jacqu
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Shar German Chancellor Gerard Schrader citing what they believed to be increased Iraqi cooperation sought to
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extend the inspections and give Iraq more time to comply with them however on March 17th seeking no further UN
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resolutions and deeming further diplomatic efforts by the security council futile Bush declared an end to
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diplomacy and issued an ultimate an ultimatum to Saddam giving the Iraqi president 48 hours to leave Iraq uh
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France Germany Russia and other countries objected so again just like with Iran we're seeing them you know we
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had a deal with Iran in 2015 we struck a deal with them in 2018 Trump ripped up
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that deal which set the grounds for the current situation so again we had a deal
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the situation was approving there's also there is no all all accounts say that
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Iran ended their nuclear weapons program in 2003 after seeing what happened to
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Iraq and there's been no evidence that they've picked it back up since then
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wow and then of course we remind ourselves the the rationale again the further rationale for the Iraq war now
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here's something that's that I actually was not aware of is uh prior throughout
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the 90s prior to the to 911 and the and the second Iraq war the Gulf War from
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the from 91 had never officially ended due to a lack of our mystics to formally
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end it and that kind of led to a whole series of of sanctions and resolutions
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against Iraq throughout the n the rest of the 90s and the Bush campaign
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actually made it part of their platform to try to remove Saddam during the 2000 election um
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but after failing to gain UN support for an additional UN authorization the US together with Ukraine and or to the UK
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and a small contingent from Australia Poland and Denmark uh if you recall the coalition of the willing um they
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launched an invasion on 20th March 2003 under the authority of UN Security Council resolution 660 and United
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Nations Security Council resolution 678 so a 2008 study conducted by the Center
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for Public Integrity and Foundation for Independent Journalism revealed that between 2001 and September 2003 George W
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bush and seven senior officials in his administration issued explicit statements on at least 532 occasions
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claiming that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or had established covert alliances with al-Qaeda or both
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the study concluded that these statements were issued by the American government as part of a orchestrated campaign to generate jingoistic
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attitudes in the United States for the purpose of initiating a war based on false pretenses
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so I I go back to that time in order to draw the similarities between what we've
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been hearing from the Trump administration recently now the Trump administration is in a tougher spot than
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Bush was because like I said Bush ran on getting rid of Saddam trump ran on no
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war trump ran on "If I'm in office there wouldn't be any wars if I'm in office
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Ukraine wouldn't have happened if I you know he he was tweeting back at Obama during Obama's administration that Obama
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would attack Iran as a distraction or to gain political points." I' I've seen a number of people post videos of him
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talking about how uh um Obama's gonna put us in World War II and it's going to
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do this that and the other and he's and that he's going to be be the the uh the president that has no wars and and then
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somebody posted you know posted that and then then the the video of him saying that yeah we just bombed you know not in
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his words but we just bombed the [ __ ] out of these guys and they're like "Is this you?" You know right uh
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so yeah and and it's and because of this unique situation that he came to the
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table in you know trying to be an anti-war candidate being a liar really is his unique situation is the fact that
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he can't he can't ever be consistent and lies all the time um but his own cabinet
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people and his other members of his administration have been just having to whiplash themselves in the last week or
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so because they would never because they were out here right like we had Tulsi
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Gabbard out here telling Congress that you know Trump Trump would never want to
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attack Iran and there's no justification for it and they're not a threat and then
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now here we are two week like now now she's having to say oh oh we've revised that and they are a threat
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further review it was full of [ __ ] it's almost like they don't communicate with each other and they're like oh no he
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would never and he his never except for he did and here's where he did oh well I
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mean you know he is the president he can do whatever he wants well is that the case we're going to
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investigate that yeah so so Trump was anti-war trump was Trump was
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anti-bombing Iran even though he assassinated uh their general the last time he was president and you know Iran
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didn't really do much in response to that either um which that's that's the big twist at the
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end of all this is we're going to treat it like it's legitimate for now but ultimately is
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this just theater that Iran is actually a part of and and I'll get to why I am
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postulating that um at the end of this but before we get there
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what is the real geopolitical reasoning behind these attacks why if he was an
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anti-war candidate that thought bombing Iran was a sign of weakness why did Trump do this and and if it's true that
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Iran's nuclear program was not an imminent threat what motivated the USIsraeli attack
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why now the answer according to the Guardian according to Nater Hashemi at the
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Guardian the answer is political opportunity so reading from the Guardian
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uh the United States has bombed Iran donald Trump announced on Sunday that B2 bombers attack three nuclear sites
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including the Bordau nuclear site sometimes referred to as the crown jewel of Iran's nuclear program
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as the world waits for Iran's response which we now have and we'll get to at the end of this it is worth revisiting
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events since 12 June when Israel with US support attacked the Islamic Republic the
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official reason is nuclear weapons the real reason I contend is the elimination of the Iran le axis of resistance and
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establishing Israeli regional hegemony over the Middle East with tacit support from Arab autocrats
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according to American and Israeli leaders Iran was about to construct a nuclear weapon israel was forced to
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engage in a preemptive attack by way of response according to Benjamin Netanyahu Israel's
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very survival was very clo was was at stake while Trump claimed Iran was very
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close to having a weapon tulsi Gabbard the US director of national intelligence
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has now fallen in line weeks after testifying before Congress that Iran was
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not pursuing a bomb thus undermining Trump's stated position and embarrassing him politically she now claims Iran
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could get a bomb within weeks no serious anal an analysis no serious
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analyst of Iran's nuclear program believes this to be true as the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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has affirmed there was no indication of a systemic program in Iran to produce a
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nuclear weapon cnn reported last week that according to US intelligence assessments not only was Iran not
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actively pursuing a nuclear weapon it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one
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when Secretary of State Rubio was asked the day after the attack if he had seen evidence that Iran was about to
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weaponize its nuclear program Rubio responded that the question was irrelevant when pressed further he said
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"Forget about intelligence." Yeah clearly the administration has
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so if Iran's nuclear program was not an imminent threat what motivated the US-Israeli attack first the Islamic
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Republic of Iran has never been weaker decades of economic sanctions and government corruption have impoverished
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the average citizen while enriching the ruling elite kind of like Iraq was
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official poverty figures reveal that roughly one-third of Iranians live in poverty and the real figure is believed
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to be much higher early this year for example the state-run Marti
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newspaper had front page headline the 400% drop in wages over a decade in
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other words Iran's economy is broken and its citizens are struggling to survive
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internally the Islamic Republic suffers from a crisis of internal legitimacy this was on full display after the death
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of Masa Amini in September 2022 that saw the birth of the women life and freedom movement that rocked Iran and showed a
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global spotlight on its sorted human rights record over 60% of Iran's population is under the age of 30 they
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have no memory of life before the 79 revolution their moral reference point is religious authoritarianism
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and clerical rule which they overwhelmingly reject if there was a
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referendum in Iran today no serious Iran expert doubts that the Islamic Republic would lose the vote by a wide margin
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while the recent bombing of Iran has produced a rally around the flag effect it's too soon to make any conclusive
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determination on how widespread this phenomenon might become and regionally
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Iran has never been weaker the loss of its main regional ally in Lebanon which is Hezbollah was a huge blow to Iran's
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regional influence and its national defense doctrine um a core reason why Iran has supported an armed Hezbollah
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was for a moment like this in the event of a direct Israeli or American attack on Iranian soil it was assumed that
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Hezbollah would open a second front against Israel this is no longer an option after Israel's sophisticated
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attack on Hezbollah last summer effectively neutralized this organization uh same thing with the
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toppling of Assad in Syria the weakening of Iranbacked militias in Iraq it's just
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an overall picture of Iranian geo geostrategic weakness so basically we
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between their political instability and their actual regional weakness uh this
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has produced a global a golden opportunity for Israel to press ahead in the hope of delivering a blow to its
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chief regional rival so Israel wants to be the the hegemonic
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power in the in the region um so the real Iranian threat to Israel and
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by proxy to America is Iran's ide ideological opposition to Israeli and
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American policy in the region its access of resistance has sought to actively
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challenge both in words and in deeds western influence in the region iran and
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its allies have also sought to rally popular opinion in the Arab Islamic world around this anti-imperialist
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threat this is the real Iranian threat that the United States and Israel seek to eliminate so basically and then the
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article goes on to compare Iran now to Cuba in the uh in the mid 20th century
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or in the throughout the from the mid to late 20th century basically go ahead they're they're uh they're not really a
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destabilizing force um their role in in regional
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destabilization is exaggerated in American foreign policy circles and
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demonized because like the Cuban threat the Iranian one today was these country was
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that the countries had foreign policies that were outside US influence and control i mean that's really what's going on here now I'm no supporter of of
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Iran's government i am no supporter of any theocratic state i I weep for the I
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I hear about the Iran that existed prior to 1979 and I'm like "Oh man it would have been an awesome place." Um I I wish
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we could bring back the democracy that they had now of course that was not really a democracy was it it was a shaw
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that was input that was put in place by America essentially um
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and so our thought is that we could just go do something like that again like like that was our plan with Iraq was to
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essentially give them that kind of democracy and you just can't give
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somebody democracy they the people have to take it the the the revolution has to
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come from within if you try and stoke a revolution from the outside I mean this
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is what the CIA did throughout the 20th century that really is a
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it resulted in a list of war crimes that'll probably never be prosecuted
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so Iran's threat is not nuclear weapons iran's ability to weaponize its nuclear program was effectively curtailed in
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2015 when it negotiated a deal with the Obama administration at the urging of Netanyahu Trump tore up that agreement
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three years later which set the stage for today's crisis the real Iranian threat is that it has an independent
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foreign policy this does not mean Tran has a good foreign policy on normative or ethical grounds far from it it simply
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means Iran operates independently as an actor in the Middle East challenging
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American and Israeli hegemony this is the real Iranian threat that the US and
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Israel seek to eliminate and again that comes from Nadir Hashemi
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who is an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics and director of the Alwali Center for Muslim
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Christian Understanding at the Edmund A walsh School of Foreign Services at
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Georgetown University so I think that that's an excellent
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analysis right there uh but I really wanted that background as we continue to go in and look at the rationale that the
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administration continues to give because I think that laid out the facts
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without any spin and now we're going to And so now I want people to be able to pick out the spin
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when they hear it excuse me one second
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sorry I had to cough it's all good choking on all this geopolitics
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so since US So now we're switching over to the BBC and uh No not that BBC Todd
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british Broadcasting Company that's the one corporation
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the Big Beautiful Corporation since US President Donald Trump ordered
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strikes on several nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend Democrats as well as lawmakers from his own party have
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questioned his legal authority to do so republican Congressman Thomas Massie said on X that the strikes were not
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constitutional and another Republican Congressman Warren Davidson wrote "It's hard to conceive a rationale that's
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constitutional." But Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson defended the president saying he
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evaluated that the imminent danger outweighed the time it would take for Congress to act and that there's
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tradition of similar military actions under presidents of both parties so did you detect any [ __ ] there
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Todd oh yeah loads like all of it
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but based on what we just went over there was no imminent danger that that
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could outweigh any time it would take for Congress to act i mean unless he thinks you know unless he thinks Iran
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was literally switching gears this instant and then three years from now maybe they have something right
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that's not imminent that's not imminent Mike that's not how that works man
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so BBC Verify has asked legal experts whether Trump's actions were in line with the Constitution or whether he
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should have consulted Congress first so what does the Constitution say about military action there are two parts of
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the US Constitution that are relevant here articles one and two article one specifically lists the ability to
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declare war as one of Congress's powers however article two which lays out the president's powers says that the
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president shall be commander-in-chief of the army and sources at the White House have told
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the BBC that they see this as the rationale for strikes on Iran constitutional experts have said that
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article 2 gives the president the authority to use military force in certain circumstances the circumstances
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aren't specifically laid out in the constitution but they have been subsequently interpreted to include actual or anticipated attacks or to
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advance other important national interests and that's according to experts at the Council for Foreign
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Relations these interests could include the prevention of nuclear proliferation which Trump administration said was
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their justification for the strikes on Iran four constitutional experts told BBC verified that Trump had some
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authority under these circumstances to order the military strikes the short answer is yes he did have the
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authority here says Clare Finkelestein a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School there is a
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long-standing practice of presidents engaging in isolated military engagements without congressional approval
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so that that line especially the first time I I read through this really stopped me in my tracks because
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because yes he has the authority because there's a long-standing practice of presidents having engaged in this
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behavior every single time a president does something like this we're all up in arms
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about whether he actually had the right to do it but apparently a president has done it enough times now where we're
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just supposed to see it as okay yeah
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another constitutional law expert Jessica Levenson at Lyola Marry Mount University said the pres president has
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limited authority to authorize air strikes as long as it quote doesn't begin to resemble a war and there is no
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clear definition of when that occurs so again it's just a gray area that Congress has allowed the president to
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exist in uh Andrew Rudolvage
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a professor of government at Baoyan College told BBC Verify he didn't
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believe Trump had the authority to launch the latest strikes as there wasn't a sudden attack to repel although
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article one gives Congress the power to declare war the provision has rarely been used the last time Congress invoked
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this power was 1942 it's been used just 10 10 times since 1812
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and again as has been mentioned experts told that told us that presidents using
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their authority to order military actions without getting approval from Congress has become more common so John
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Bellinger who was a legal adviser in the White House under President George W bush said over the last several decades
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Congress has acquiesed more and more in presidential uses of military force for a variety of purposes without
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congressional authorization congress and the courts have effectively negated the requirements of a
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declaration and that's Jonathan Turley one of the
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most disappointing constitutional experts I've ever heard of so just in fairness here's what other
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presidents have done um President Barack Obama authorized air strikes in Libya without requesting permission from
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Congress which his administration justified under article 2 as was the case for the mission to kill Osama bin
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Laden in Pakistan in 2011 uh during Trump's first term in office he ordered the killing of Iranian military officer
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Kasim Solammani without congressional approval uh Bill Clinton launched strikes in the Balkans without prior
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approval and more recently Joe Biden did the same thing hitting Houthy targets in Yemen as well as in Syria
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so it's been repeatedly used by presidents throughout our history said Mr charlie in 2016 Obama dropped more
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than 26,000 bombs from Syria to Libya to Somalia without such calls for impeachment history and president
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president favors Trump in this action now here's the thing though all the drone strikes and the bombs that Obama
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dropped during his presidency those have what's been those basically that's why the left reviles Obama in many circles
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now they see him as a merchant of death they you know there's Obama's gotten a
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lot of flack for that for for those bombings and I bet we could find some
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Republicans calling to impeach him at any point i think all the all the all the people who like say they don't want
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to vote for him or didn't want to vote for him or even Camala was they they for
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things like that like well that's what they did and you know people love them so what why is that different than what
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what is what Trump is doing and I'm like I mean honestly I don't really know I
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just know that he probably got permission to do those and Trump clearly did not care what the what Congress had
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to say So and and I mean to be fair there the they are citing instances here
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where the president like Obama didn't get permission from Congress to do these things now they were working under the
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off the authorized use of military force that was created in 2002 for the Iraq war which lasted in full effect until
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2023 and technically still isn't fully repealed now to be honest but the Senate
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repealed their authorization in 2023 and it's floundered in the House um
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but but the point but my point being is that these aren't these they were wrong when
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it happened before and if you were paying attention to critics of Obama they all criticized him for it
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but they love when Trump does it though yeah and then what about other laws critics of Trump's strikes on Iran have
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also pointed out to the War Powers Resolution which was passed in 73 following America's withdrawal from the Vietnam War to limit the president's
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ability to wage war without consulting Congress first although the law does allow the president to use force without
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congressional approval in emergencies it states that they should in every possible instance shall consult with
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Congress before introducing United States armed forces into hostilities it does not appear that President Trump
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complied with this requirement says Mr bellinger based on reporting so far it
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appears that President Trump did not actually have a substantive consultations with Congress or rather
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simply informed several Republican leaders us media has reported that Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck
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Schumer had been called about an hour before the strikes began but with little detail white House press secretary
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Caroline Levit wrote on X that the administration made courtesy calls to congressional leadership
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uh the resolution also says that Congress must be notified within 48 hours after military action has taken place secretary of Defense Pete Hex said
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that Congress were notified after the planes were safely out and that they complied with the notification
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requirements of the War Powers Act so oh so Hexath actually waited till the
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planes were safely out before notifying his chat thread is that Or did or if you had if you're on a if you have uh if you
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have signal did you already know before the planes are safely out oh wow i don't know i just I saw a thing today that
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that Trump said that everyone's safely back in wherever state they landed in he's like "Are we not supposed to like
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announce where these soldiers are are residing is that is that something we're
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supposed to be doing?" So I guess
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he talks too much
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and then jumping over to a CNN article uh the War Powers Act requires advanced consultation with Congress whenever
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possible before entering US troops into hostilities here I think it is pretty obviously was possible and it also pre
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pretty obviously wasn't done the Supreme Court has been generous in approving Trump's expansive use of power most
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notably its immunity ruling last year that view has also contributed to the
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analysis a senior White House official said "This isn't some technical rulemaking,"
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said Chris Anders senior counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union "it is literally as one of the enumerated
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powers of the Constitution." "In the Federalist Papers James Madison argued for an exception that's been hotly
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discussed since that the president can use force if needed to quote repel a sudden attack on the United States." If
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applied to Iran Anders said it wouldn't meet that test the use of bombing runs against
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facilities that have been standing there for years perhaps decades and were not about to be a part of a sudden attack on
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the United States a senior Justice Department official said if the conflict continues for an extended period the
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administration may have to go to Congress for approval but maintained that bombing three nuclear sites does
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not rise to the level of needing congressional approval the official also noted the Trump administration has the
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support of senior House and Senate leaders so again this is all it's the
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story of the Trump administration he's he's getting to break he's getting to violate the Constitution at will because
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Congress is controlled by his lackey right
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so what could Congress actually do or what would Congress actually do
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uh Massie Thomas Massie that we referenced before and Democratic Representative Roana are seeking to
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reassert Congress's authority over military action with a co-sponsored war powers resolution democratic Senator Tim
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Kaine said on Fox News Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is pushing for a vote as
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soon as possible on a resolution so quote "All members of the Senate have to declare whether or not the US should be
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at war with Iran." US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s were at least debated in
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Congress at the time with requests from then George then President George W bush massie noted it should have been
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declarations of war but at least they did an authorization of use of military force massie said we haven't had that
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this has been turned upside down some lawmakers and legal expert legal experts
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are looking at the second Iraq war as president for congressional action and also a warning to review the
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intelligence we are in yellow cake uranium land a
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former national security official said referring to botched intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
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congress should be asking questions about what intelligence and what legal findings they did before taking this
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escalatory action democratic and Republican administrations have repeatedly stretched the 2002 authorization of use
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of military force which authorized the Iraq war as legal authority from military action in locations outside of
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Iraq an earlier amp that authorized action against al-Qaeda and associated
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groups has also been used beyond what was conceived in the post 911 era the
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problem is that historically the only meaningful check on presidential abuse of war powers has been p pushed back
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from Congress but that was a cong that was when Congress took its constitutional and
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institutional responsibilities seriously and that's from Steven Vladk
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the ACLU's Anders says there's still time for Congress to act on a bipartisan basis suggesting public hearings to air
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the Trump administration's military and legal justifications congress could also look at restricting
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funds for such actions without its buyin it's also a chance for a true national debate one advantage that comes to the
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executive branch when it goes to Congress and asks for author authorization that there's a clear examination of what the United States is
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getting into so there's much more of a national buy in so they're basically trying to say that
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if if you know if Trump really wanted popular support for these attacks going
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to Congress would be a good way to get it but he's not really he's not really
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interested in popular support for it he's just interested in in whatever the grand bargain he's got going on with
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Netanyahu and then lastly before we uh move on to
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the updated to the update on this on Iran's response even Putin
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tells Iranian foreign minister that there was no justification for US attack so from Reuters Russian res Russian
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President Vladimir Putin told Iran's foreign minister on Monday that there was no justification for the US bombing of his country and that Moscow was
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trying to help the Iranian people putin hosted Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araki in Moscow two days after the
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attack and this is and quote the absolutely unprovoked aggression against
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Iran has no basis and no justification putin told him in televised comments
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so so even Putin is not is not following Trump's narrative on this
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so so what happened what what happened overnight what changed today
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well as I mentioned earlier this is kind of a repeat of
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Trump's last term when they assassinated Solabani and in retaliation Iran blew up an
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airfield after we had
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you know evacuated it right so
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what happened here so as of uh well this is two this story
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is from 2:40 p.m today um Iran launched a missile attack on an
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American air base in Qatar on Monday that caused no injuries
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when Donald Trump dismissed it as a weak response
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the attack on Aluded Air Base in neighboring Qatar threatened to widen a conflict that began on June 13 with an
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Israeli strike on Iran targeting its nuclear program and ballistic missions missiles excuse me
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iran had threatened to retaliate against the United States after US bombers dropped 30,000 pound buster bunkers on
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Iranian underground nuclear facilities at the weekend joining Israel's air war against Iran and Trump had raised the
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possibility of the Iranian government being toppled "we did not assault anyone and we will
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never accept being assaulted by anyone," Iran supreme leader said "we will not submit to anyone's aggression this is the logic of the Iranian nation." Iran
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gave advanced notice to the US via diplomatic channels hours ahead of the attack as well as to call as well as to
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Qatari authorities trump seized on that as a positive sign so did you catch that
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iran gave advanced notice via diplomatic channels hours ahead of the attacks of
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course they did i want to thank Iran for giving us early notice which made it possible for no lives to be lost and
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nobody to be injured trump wrote on his truth social media site perhaps Iran can
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now proceed to peace and harmony in the region and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same
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i am pleased to report that no Americans were harmed and hardly any damage was done most importantly they've gotten it
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all out of their system and there will hopefully be no further hate
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so that was that was earlier today and again it's just like is this all is this
47:35
all political theater is this all war theater like is this like you know you talk about theaters of war but is this actual theater via war uh
47:43
like did we know what their response would be was it all worked out and cooked up ahead of time because here's
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what happens now two hours ago as of two hours ago Trump says there is a ceasefire agreement between Israel and
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Iran so this is one of the this is one of Trump's go-to plays which is cause a
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ruckus cause a problem and then take credit when he fixes when he quote
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unquote fixes the problem that he instituted to begin with it's you know going around kicking beehives and
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selling raid right it's that kind of stuff it's racketeering essentially yeah yeah so so Trump announced what he called so
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that previous story came from uh came from Reuters now we're back over to
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CNN for their their blog updates um so President Donald
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Trump announced what he called a complete and total ceasefire between Israel and Iran the ceasefire is set to
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start in approximately six hours it has been according to the president has been fully agreed by and between Israel and
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Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now when Israel and Iran have
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wound down and completed their inrogress final missions for 12 hours at which point the war will be considered ended
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the president wrote on social media neither Iran nor Israel has made any comments about a pending ceasefire the
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ceasefire will be phased in during the next 24 hours officially Iran will start the ceasefire
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and upon the 12th hour Israel will start the ceasefire and upon the 24th hour an official end to the 12-day war will be
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saluted by the world during each ceasefire the other side will remain peaceful and respectful the president
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wrote so again we have
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is it all just was it all just for show was was anything actually happening and then since this announcement there was a
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big strike blast was heard in Tran by CNN's team on the ground um
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that Israel issued new evacuation warning so apparently these were just the pre-planned final attacks even
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though there's already a ceasefire in agreement supposedly
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so it's just it's all professional wrestling with this guy i mean I don't It's all It's
50:04
all fake it's just all fake the only The only thing he's missing is is the uh
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grandiose speeches like like Hogan and and Savage used to make back in the 80s
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oh yeah brother you know next Sunday I'm gonna whoop your ass yeah
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and then of course you know three years from now Trump will be gone out of office and the rest of the world trying
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to move on will have to deal with the fallout from this right yeah like will will anybody ever make a deal with
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America again probably not certainly certainly Iran won't right we It'd be
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I mean who really knows i guess I guess it depends on how much money is involved
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well yeah yeah it depends on what sort of grand bargain is going on behind closed doors which is that's a topic for
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another day but the grand bargain with Jared Kushner and
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Middle East various Middle Eastern countries and yeah there's
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there's definitely if if you're into conspiracy theories there's something to dive into there yeah
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so that does it for the main topic we can move over to the news now todd the news all righty
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okay just making sure I got the right button here [Music]
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and now it's time for our weekly news we're breaking down the key stories
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shaping our world from policy shifts to the latest in global affairs
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let's dive in all right
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all right so in some good news some at least temporarily good news uh Makmoud
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Khalil has been released from custody yay yay
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so he's someone we've been following uh he was the Colombia recent Columbia University graduate that's a green card
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holder married to an American citizen um who was detained and sent to Louisiana
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because he is an organizer he's a he's Palestinian and he is an organizer of pro Palestinian uh protests at Colombia
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so he was a political prisoner of America in America and he is finally out
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on bail I believe right on excuse me right arm
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so and then of course two days after being released from ICE custody uh he was back on the streets outside of the
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University of Colombia surrounded by a crowd of hundreds of supporters so he was detained on March 8th this story is
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coming from the people'sdispatch.org he was detained on March 8th by Plainscloed ICE agents outside of his
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home in Columbia University housing in front of his pregnant wife Dr norah Abdala cle spent 104 days in ICE custody
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in the notorious Lasal Detention Center in the rural town of Jenna Louisiana so his wife was pregnant when he was taken
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in oh wow she since had the baby he's got to meet the baby as far as I know at least once that's good and it was it was
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in a visitation at the prison at the detention center oh okay but he's home now though right but now he is finally
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home okay yes okay good so Khil described to members of the press outside of the Cathedral of St john of
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the Divine on June 20th it felt like I was literally being kidnapped these 30 hours were the most difficult
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time during the whole experience Khalil said who described that during this time he was not told what he was accused of
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cle described some of the conditions he faced while at the detention center in Jenna i shared a dorm with over 70 men
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he said describing the lack of privacy and little change from night to day with lights on 247
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it's so normal in detention to see men cry Khalil said they can't understand why they are there they know they don't
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have documents but is but does this actually mean they should be detained cle asked cleo was released on June 20th
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in Louisiana and arrived at the airport in New York New Jersey the very next day
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accusing the Columbia University administration of trying its best to portray me as someone who was violent Khalil spoke at the press conference
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near the Columbia University gates on June 22nd to set the record straight
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who is Makmoud Khalil he asked the crowd of hundreds of supporters gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of St john
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the Divine makmoud Khalil is a human rights defender makmoud Khalil is a freedom fighter makmoud Khalil is a
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refugee makmoud Khalil is a father and husband and above all Makmoud Khalil is
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Palestinian he said to thunderous applause makmoud Khalil is a Palestinian
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who refused to remain silent before Khalil's press conference outside of the cathedral People's Dispatch spoke
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to Miam Alwan Columbia University's graduate and Kalo's friend
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for Alwan her friend's return is the closure that we all needed i can't believe it's been over three months
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every single day we were counting the days and hoping that he would be released soon awan said her friend's
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release is a strong message that no matter what repression they try it will always backfire
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khalil took questions from reporters one asked what his message was to students who might be fearful of expressing their
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activism based on what happened to him we will win Khalil asserted
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i believe that we will win the students across the country have always led us towards what's right
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khalil continued they were our moral compass this happened during the Vietnam War during apartheid South Africa during
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fossil fuels demonstrations and it's happening now after taking questions from the press Khalil led a crowd into
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march and in a march to Colombia's gates while in front of the gates Khalil vowed
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to continue to protest against the genocide in Gaza right so I think that's pretty uplifting that's pretty Yeah
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that's a pretty hopeful situation right now i I don't know if he's I don't know that he's clear if he's in the clear yet
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but but he's he's at least no longer in
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prison and gets to spend time with his wife and his new baby yeah that's good
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glad to hear at least he's able to see his kid without like uh you know officers kind of keeping an eye on him
56:24
and all that so now switching over to Buzzfeed via
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yahoo.com i was I voted for Trump in 2016 when he won i was shocked by how brutal brutally
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my life changed overnight this is by Julia Woo she says "I am a Chinese woman
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a daughter of immigrants who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election it is almost a secret though I
56:49
sometimes offer up the confession like it is a penance i cried driving away from my polling place and sobbed on a
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futon 21." My chest was tight my stomach churned my face was hot all blood and breath and acid had conspired inside me
57:01
to signal alarm i immediately hated my choice but I did not yet believe it to be wrong i had bought into the lesser of
57:08
two evils arc with but her email still echoing in my mind to assure me that this was the only option
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wow my eagerness is in addition to a behavioral white evangelical culture provided me with one thing I'd been
57:22
chasing my whole life an entry point into dominant white culture i wanted to un other myself and believe that I could
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assimilate myself into safety power and love
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okay i So this is a story Todd had put on here i had not read through it yet um
57:47
yeah it looked like it would would be an interesting story it sounds like she's uh
57:53
The problem is this whole she's going through her entire life starting in grade school oh and it's it's more just
57:59
a a biography leading up to the Yeah well this is like when you when you pull
58:04
up a you pull up a recipe that you want and then you got to get through like five pages of them describing the first
58:10
spring where they thought about I remember when I came up with this this this recipe when I was five years old
58:16
back in the Second World War i didn't realize it was going to be a
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biograph a biography uh but it sounds like it sounds like she learned her
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lesson and uh Well it sounds like I don't know why she voted for him in the first place it sounds like she
58:33
immediately regretted it i mean
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yeah why would she If she knew it was a bad choice to do it why did she do it yeah like you you also have the option
58:45
of just not voting i I don't I I I have feelings about
58:52
people who like don't vote because a lot of times these are the people are the loudest like well I didn't want to vote
58:57
because I didn't like either one it's like well why didn't you pick the lesser of two evils you know look at all the
59:03
information that's out there and realize that one is most definitely more evil than the other although it sounds like
59:09
she thought she was picking the lesser of two evils even though it clearly wasn't the case and it just goes to show how important
59:16
it is to get some sort of rank choice voting going in this country this problem is solved everywhere that
59:23
in that has rank choice voting and you put your top you put whoever you really
59:28
want you rank like in New York for the primary for mayor they rank five choices
59:33
this is going on right now they rank five choices and if your first choice doesn't get enough to form a
59:39
majority then all your votes then your vote for second choice goes up and if that person doesn't get enough to if the
59:46
second round doesn't still doesn't get in a majority then you know you go through all five of your choices and
59:52
eventually you know a consensus has come to and it just it allows you to put like if you don't it
59:59
allows you to put a long shot at the top of your ballot right it allows you to put whoever you damn well please at the
1:00:04
top of your ballot and you can feel good about it you can feel like you did you're on the right side of history and
1:00:11
I and it's just but this winner take all mentality that we have to have in this country it ruins it it's contributing to
1:00:17
the electoral problem yeah yeah i first was introduced to this concept in 2016
1:00:23
and I saw a video done by a uh uh comedy group in Australia and they were
1:00:29
basically like talking [ __ ] about American politics and how uh how it's
1:00:34
broken and everything else and then you know here in Australia we have this setup and they talks about what you just
1:00:40
said i was like wow that's [ __ ] amazing why don't we do that and you know I think it's because they know that
1:00:47
uh I I believe that they the the the Republicans know that they would
1:00:53
absolutely never win if that was the case yeah it would give it would give the
1:00:58
progressive left a a chance yeah
1:01:03
which you know there's way more progressives in this country than people realize i mean nobody really wants to
1:01:09
get worse people want things to get better right right and that's really all it really takes to be a progressive is
1:01:14
just wanting things to be better yeah and and uh there's not as much stigma with the the term progressive as there
1:01:21
is for leftist or democrat socialist or socialist yeah yeah
1:01:28
i mean progressive is what I've always considered myself i' I've called myself a democratic socialist which is also true um but I'm really more of a I'm
1:01:36
technically more of a liberal progressive i don't really put I don't really put labels onto myself because I
1:01:42
feel like a label is never going to be nuanced enough but but progressive is a label I've
1:01:48
never shied away from i always I I definitely embraced the idea of being a progressive even when even when I was
1:01:53
reading my history books in school you know the progressive era was my favorite era of history i all I know is that when
1:02:00
I started when I was of age to vote I I I voted for for uh for uh Clinton and my
1:02:07
my mom was like "Oh oh okay okay oh oh okay okay um I mean yeah that's a
1:02:15
vote and uh you know you're entitled to it." And yeah i was like "What you didn't vote for him?" He's like "No."
1:02:22
I was like "Okay." Did she vote for Ross Perau uh she didn't vote for him uh a
1:02:29
lot of people in my family are Republican I've noticed over the years and um or at the very least uh they're
1:02:36
not Democrats so and and uh my sister is like a pretty
1:02:43
hardcore Republican much like my mother they both uh watch exclusively Fox News
1:02:50
and I before my mom passed away I remember her spouting off all the all
1:02:56
the catchphrases from Fox you know they're they're trying to they're trying to take away Christmas um Mexicans are
1:03:04
are coming over the border in droves and all the other absolute [ __ ] what
1:03:10
what what's what does the cynical historian call that uh uh moral panic
1:03:17
it's it's it's the starting moral panics over these things yeah yeah which every election cycle they they bring up a new
1:03:24
one and as as I've become more and more aware of politics and political stuff I realize that the vast majority of my
1:03:30
family are all Republican uh and they uh either they vote for the the candidate
1:03:38
they like or they don't vote at all because they don't like either one and in my mind if you don't vote uh you
1:03:45
don't have any anything to complain about um you uh if if we got if we get
1:03:51
stuck with a an [ __ ] for four years because you didn't vote it's kind of your fault in my mind um you know if if
1:04:00
you had voted for the other person we wouldn't have been we would have the other person we wouldn't have the the
1:04:06
person who's trying to destroy our country and so in my mind people who
1:04:11
didn't vote in the election because you know they didn't like either one and
1:04:16
they wouldn't vote for the Democrat because they're a Democrat they wouldn't vote for him because he's a he's a thief
1:04:22
and he's a liar and he's a he's a felon and uh I mean you're just giving away
1:04:30
the presidency to him because there's a lot of people who voted for him um
1:04:36
and uh you I believe that they they they have no they have no room to talk about how
1:04:43
horrible things are happening right now because you didn't vote you didn't you had nothing to do with it it's you know
1:04:49
and again it's just more argument for rank choice voting because these people wouldn't have to they wouldn't have to vote Democrat or Republican they could
1:04:55
vote they could vote for all these various different third parties they could put in five and call it good you
1:05:01
know yeah yeah they don't Yeah they don't have to vote for the because the
1:05:06
the electoral college really locks us into a two-party system uh because if you don't get a majority of the
1:05:12
electoral college it puts the presidential election to to the House of Representatives therefore you have to
1:05:18
band together with enough people to get 50% plus one yeah because if you if you
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can't get your your your 272 uh in the in the electoral college you
1:05:30
might as well not even you know it's just going to go to the House of Representatives so it's always going to default to a
1:05:36
two-party system that's why every time we've had a third party one one of the third one of the three parties ends up
1:05:41
falling away or being absorbed into whichever one they're closest allied with yeah yeah and I just it's um and
1:05:49
I've had a few members of my family go "Well I didn't vote for her because she's a
1:05:55
Democrat and I don't like what she's done." And I was like "Yeah but is she really that much worse than him that
1:06:02
you're not going to vote for her?" He's like "I don't like either one so I'm not going to vote." I was like "Well if you don't vote then we're going to get stuck
1:06:09
with whoever the majority of people really want." And at this point it looks like it could be him why aren't you
1:06:15
voting like well it it's the whole it's to me it's it sounds like the that
1:06:21
episode of South Park where it's like the choices are a turd sandwich and a giant douche i'm not voting oh exactly
1:06:28
that's how a lot of people feel yeah so and it'd be nice if you could you know write in people other than
1:06:36
other than those top two other than the you know than the turd sandwich or the whatever it was you said giant douche i
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I I think it'd be nice have to vote for them and and but still but still have participated because eventually like
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maybe maybe at the your fifth vote is for turd sandwich instead of giant douche or vice versa h how how many
1:06:55
times do you think Mickey Mouse would have won if they were to actually go by who people wrote in a name
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do you have the answer to this no I don't i'm just it was just a thing that come came in my head was like um I mean
1:07:07
I know people used to like write Mickey Mouse's like their write in choice cuz like I'm not going to [ __ ] vote for
1:07:13
either one of these i'll put Mickey Mouse in it's like there has to be like a number that of people who wrote in who
1:07:20
wrote in like a cartoon character or a pop culture icon or something you know
1:07:26
Captain Kirk or uh you know Wesley Crusher you know I I'd be curious if
1:07:33
there is any data like on this election turns out Mickey Mouse would have won mayor but they didn't count it cuz he's
1:07:39
a fictional character fictional characters but I do I think a lot of our I think a lot of our domestic problems
1:07:47
would sort themselves out if we had rank choice voting uh yeah public funding of
1:07:52
elections and eliminate the electoral college they're never going to get rid of the electoral college I think just
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because um Yeah well the so the way we get rid of the electoral college is that
1:08:05
we um states get to decide how they allocate their electoral votes so right
1:08:12
now there's x number of states that have signed on to this amendment that says
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not an amendment but this agreement that once enough states
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where their electoral votes once enough states agree to this agreement
1:08:30
that enough that that two that make up 272 electoral votes so once you have enough states for that 272
1:08:37
then those those states will all change their state legislation
1:08:44
so that their EVs go to whoever wins the popular vote
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so then you still have the electoral college but it's effectively a popular vote election yeah
1:08:57
so enough enough enough states to decide the election agree that they're going to distribute their votes based on the
1:09:05
whoever won the the popular vote hasn't there hasn't there recently in the last few weeks been like uh talk about like
1:09:12
recounting for this last election because of all the all the horrible [ __ ] going down
1:09:18
that there's been some stories about it i've I may have mentioned one of them or
1:09:24
more but I've I I read them i shy away from them because what they really are
1:09:30
is they're basically saying that so there are some more far out ones where they're like "Hey there could have been
1:09:35
some real malfeasants like in the machines." But most of what I read is is that it's through legal means like
1:09:43
gerrymandering and uh voter voter roles purging the voter roles right so they'll
1:09:51
go through and they'll like in Ohio or something they'll be like "Oh we have this new law where we're going to send
1:09:57
everybody a flyer and if you don't respond to the flyer you're unregistered to vote."
1:10:03
Yeah and then a whole bunch of And then they just know that and then they and
1:10:08
they just know that certain people aren't going to respond to it and they're like "Okay well that cleared off a bunch of the roles now we go and
1:10:15
register more of our people." And yeah well I mean I'm just saying that I'm I' I've been seeing people talking about
1:10:21
how they're really uh telling people to push to talk to their local
1:10:27
representatives or whatever the wording is um to ask for them to do a recount
1:10:32
because I mean there was information that uh wasn't it like uh Trump or or or
1:10:40
Elon had said something along the lines of that you know you know that he had
1:10:46
did some sort of programming or whatever i mean Elon's taking credit for the 2020
1:10:51
win but I think that's more just based on money and stuff he spent okay yeah
1:10:57
and I mean I mean that's not to say that there's nothing there it's just I don't know that there's anything we can prove
1:11:03
um because they're definitely I I mean I still leave the possibility open that
1:11:08
you know Russia or whatever hacking scheme that Putin has together uh does
1:11:15
have access to our voter roles and did do some sort of shenanigans in 2016 and
1:11:20
2024 um but it's also like why wouldn't they have done that in 2020 maybe there's a theory that spreading Trump
1:11:27
out across 12 years instead of just eight in a row uh allows him to do more
1:11:32
damage um but ultimately they're just ideas about what could have happened and
1:11:38
there's no evidence of any actual malfeence it's also just all the legal
1:11:44
methods that we know they did with the voter purging and gerrymandering and making it hard to vote and trying to
1:11:51
discourage people to vote we know that that was enough to win so really don't have to look for a deeper conspiracy
1:11:58
it just goes to show that you got to vote you got to make sure you're registered you got to be out there and be an active voter
1:12:06
and all that yeah for sure i know i know uh about a year ago I I was like making
1:12:12
sure that I'm still in the system and still registered and like right before
1:12:17
November I double checked again just to be understatement because I kept seeing all these stories about how people's
1:12:23
registrations are being like either purged or deleted or just un
1:12:29
unregistered or whatever i was like that's [ __ ] up and uh
1:12:34
yeah I'm just wondering if there's if there's anything we can do to like maybe
1:12:40
like pull him out of office cuz clearly he's not he's not doing what
1:12:46
he's supposed to be doing and and you talk about Trump still yeah yeah just he's not Yeah i mean impeachment's the I
1:12:53
mean that's the thing is impeachment is the remedy congress congressional oversight is the remedy uh the judges
1:12:59
are blocking him as much as they can and so that's that is one a number of times before he even became president so
1:13:04
what's what's the point of impeachment if it doesn't do anything he didn't go to he didn't go to jail for
1:13:10
it he didn't go to jail for all 34 felonies and I don't know i just it's it's
1:13:16
frustrating to hear all this [ __ ] every day um and like why isn't somebody like
1:13:22
"Hey maybe we should go back and look all that [ __ ] and and and make sure that it is what it is and that there isn't
1:13:29
like a pile of [ __ ] ballots sitting in in in a warehouse someplace next to
1:13:34
the the Ark of the Covenant you know." Well I definitely don't I definitely would have liked to have seen the
1:13:39
Democrats fight harder legally when it comes to votes and stuff like that um but again this is people call it 4D
1:13:47
chess i think it's just the luck of being a whiny [ __ ] but you know having
1:13:52
pushed back on Trump and all the and all the voter fraud he falsely claimed after 2020 it's hard to turn around and try
1:13:59
and do the same thing back to him you know what I mean it's like it looks like it's just sour grapes like his were you know what I mean like it's like oh
1:14:05
you're just suing because Trump sued and you're just acting like Trump and you won't you won't admit you won't you
1:14:11
won't admit that you lost and so because they don't they don't want to appear like they're sore losers so they're not
1:14:17
gonna they're not going to do anything about it they're just gonna you know what he he probably cheated he probably
1:14:22
did something to to to put it in his favor but we're not going to do anything about because we don't want to look like
1:14:28
we're a bunch of [ __ ] losers well and we don't want to undermine our system because that's the thing is that's a
1:14:34
long American tradition is not fighting election results to the extent that you could because anytime you fight election
1:14:41
results you're undermining the entire electoral system you're basically putting it all into question so it just
1:14:46
makes it easier for people who who do cheat to do a go ahead and do what they did but if but if we had if if you if
1:14:53
you just basically have both sides never giving in and never conceding and always pushing everything to the legal furthest
1:15:00
legal limit or beyond the legal limits each time then eventually you just don't have elections anymore you just have
1:15:07
fights and and that's part of where Trump is trying to drag us so I think again it's
1:15:13
it's it's not my preferred strategy on how to deal with a bully but it is one way to do it which is you let the bully
1:15:19
punch himself out instead of trying to start a fight but all right sorry I didn't mean to didn't mean to sidetrack
1:15:26
no that that even though we didn't that story really wasn't right uh it ended up leading to a good conversation so I like
1:15:32
that um so last three stories on the weekly news we'll get we'll we'll rapid fire these real quick it's all bad news
1:15:39
um what else is new right but I do feel like it's something that everybody
1:15:45
especially if you're in Western Washington or at least or in the state of Washington um you should really hear about or in the Pacific Northwest I
1:15:51
guess in general um and even in America um so you the Washington State Patrol uh
1:15:58
uses cell phone data to predict and prevent dangerous drivers so what's happening here is the Washington State
1:16:05
Patrol used um cell phone data collected in 2023 from
1:16:11
more than 1 million cell phone users in Washington helped the state identify habits of dangerous drivers
1:16:18
um so Shelley Baldwin the director of Washington Traffic Safety Commission said the WTSC
1:16:24
use state funding to purchase telematic data gathered by Michelin Mobility Intelligence
1:16:31
so They're I first of all like they're buy they're spending money to buy our
1:16:38
data from private companies that have in some way acquired our data um and they
1:16:45
say this is so exciting to be using that data that we haven't had access to before it's predictive as opposed to
1:16:50
reflective the data revealed when and where drivers had sped used their brakes
1:16:55
talked on the phone and texted while on Washington roadways so here's the kicker
1:17:01
here's why I feel like this was a waste of money and and privacy uh a wa a waste
1:17:07
of a privacy intrusion uh WSP will utilize the newly acquired data to
1:17:12
search for speeders in four Washington locations over the next six weeks these
1:17:18
four locations which they needed this data to determine are I5 from Joint Base Lewis McCord to F
1:17:28
I5 from Fe to Auburn I5 north and south of Everett
1:17:34
and a 14 mile stretch of I90 east and west of Spokane
1:17:40
literally everywhere they always already had speed traps this is like they didn't
1:17:46
need to buy this data they didn't in order to know that these were the most the most important areas for them to hit
1:17:53
they already know this they already stock those locations everybody already knows to expect cops in those locations
1:18:03
but damn it they got the data now to prove it uh other bit of bad news Crater Lake
1:18:11
National Park Superintendent resigns over Trump staffing cuts
1:18:16
so Crater Lake down in Oregon yeah yeah beautiful beautiful place if nobody's ever been i'm aware nobody's ever been
1:18:23
that's right nobody's ever been there uh but but a beautiful place if you've never been um the superintendent Kevin
1:18:32
Heatley has resigned citing deep staffing cuts he says are unsustainable and damaging to one of the nation's
1:18:38
natural treasures heatley stepped down Friday after just five months in the role in an interview with KGW on Tuesday
1:18:45
he said the decision was difficult but necessary given the direction of federal staffing policies i did not want to be
1:18:51
empowering the current administration to cause that kind of impact on the people that I'm responsible for Heatley said
1:18:58
and I also did not want to participate in the dismantlement effectively a dismantlement of the National Park
1:19:03
Service heatley criticized what he described as a systemic effort to shrink the park service workforce pointing to
1:19:10
early retirement incentives for veteran employees and terminations of newer staff without clear cause he said
1:19:16
policies initiated under the Trump administration continue to erode the AY's ability to function we're being
1:19:23
told for instance when people leave that they only want to replace 25% of those permanent positions you can't run an
1:19:30
organization like that so again we just have further evidence
1:19:35
of the Trump administration dismantling our public infrastructure um and we've
1:19:40
mentioned it on this podcast before but again if you are not following the Alt National Park Service on social media
1:19:47
please do so uh AL alt ALT National Park Service on Facebook on Blue Sky follow
1:19:55
them please they're they're they're going to keep you better updated on a lot of this kind
1:20:01
of stuff than we're able to and lastly for my news and this is some
1:20:08
sad this is some sad news that requires further exploration um marijuana use
1:20:14
coming from CNN.com marijuana use dramatically increases risk of dying
1:20:19
from heart attacks and stroke large study finds now the one thing that we
1:20:24
don't know is how the marijuana was taken if the marijuana was predominantly
1:20:30
smoked then that's definitely going to lead to a higher chance of of of heart
1:20:36
issues and stroke um anytime you combust carbon and inhale it in your lungs
1:20:41
that's bad for you yeah but so according to the study using marijuana doubles the
1:20:47
risk of dying from heart disease according to a new analysis pulled of pulled medical data involving 200
1:20:53
million people mostly between the ages of 19 and 59 uh what was particularly striking was
1:20:58
that the concerned patients hospitalized for these disorders were young and with no history of cardiovascular disorder or
1:21:05
cardiovascular risk factors compared to non-users those who used
1:21:10
cannabis also had a 29% higher risk for heart attacks and a 20% higher risk for
1:21:16
stroke this is one of the largest studies to date on the connection between marijuana
1:21:21
and heart disease and it raises serious questions about the assumption that cannabis imposes a little imposes little
1:21:27
cardiovascular risk getting this right is critically important because cardiovascular disease is the top cause
1:21:33
of death both in the United States and globally
1:21:39
clinicians need to screen people for cannabis use and educate them about its harms the same way we do for tobacco
1:21:46
the new systematic review and meta analysis analyzed medical information from large observational studies
1:21:52
conducted in Australia Egypt Canada France Sweden and the US between 2016
1:21:58
and 2023 those studies did not ask people how they use cannabis such as via
1:22:05
smoking vaping dabbing edibles tinctures topicals however based on epid epidemiological data it is likely that
1:22:12
cannabis was smoked in the vast majority of cases so that's the thing is is smoking
1:22:18
tobacco is a well-known cause of heart disease and smoking smoking uh marijuana is is also going to
1:22:27
have a similar effect uh controversially or alternatively however you might want
1:22:32
to say it um there's been studies going back to the 1950s that said when you control for tobacco
1:22:39
use uh marijuana does not actually cause things like lung cancer um there's a
1:22:45
famous study in the like from like 1954 it's called on becoming a marijuana user
1:22:51
and people that only smoked marijuana from this pool as they studied them as
1:22:57
life went on um the people who only smoked marijuana did not develop lung cancer at the same rate as people who
1:23:04
smoked tobacco um if you smoked tobacco and marijuana then you could see lung
1:23:09
cancer showing up in the population but if you only smoked marijuana that wasn't the case i would need to re refresh
1:23:16
myself on that study for the specifics but my memory of it was it's like if you only smoked marijuana you weren't
1:23:21
getting lung cancer whether that's because the THC helped inhibit any kind of tumors or if it was just at a lower
1:23:29
rate I don't I don't recall specifically they This article does say edibles may
1:23:36
also play a role in heart disease people who consumed edibles laced with THC showed signs of early cardiovascular
1:23:43
disease similar to tobacco smokers we found that vascular function was reduced by 42% in marijuana smokers and by 56%
1:23:52
in THC edible users compared to non-users it just doesn't make sense that the
1:23:57
edibles would be reduced by even more which is confusing and part of why I
1:24:02
think this needs further study unless they're just saying that the edible users were also smoking which they're
1:24:08
not controlling for yeah but it is this is really the first time
1:24:14
ever I've heard something negative about heart disease
1:24:20
and stroke when it comes to THC alone I've always known smoking itself is bad
1:24:26
for you no matter what you're smoking um but this is the first time I've ever seen something suggest that edibles even
1:24:33
would be harmful for you so this is something to keep an eye on especially if you live in a state where weed is
1:24:38
legal like we do yeah yeah and with that bit of good news
1:24:44
we can at long last head to What's Geek this week welcome to What's Geek This
1:24:51
Week your go for the coolest in pop culture category news let's dive in
1:24:56
[Music] all right so yeah I I p I I I picked a
1:25:03
few stories um this week one of the things I I saw this late last night
1:25:08
early this morning that the uh let me pull this up here uh Castlevania
1:25:15
producer 80 or Addie uh Shanker buys the rights to Duke Nukem series uh renegade
1:25:23
producer Andy Shanker has uh been on a hot streak with video game adaptations
1:25:29
lately his Castlevania animated series ran for four seasons on Netflix and spawned a spin-off plus his latest
1:25:37
endeavor a TV TV adaption of The Devil May Cry video game has been renewed for
1:25:44
a second season on the platform shanker now has another beloved uh game property
1:25:51
to add to his slate at his cheekly titled company Bootleg
1:25:57
Universe Duke Nukem wow so there's a Devil May Cry yeah it it came out it
1:26:04
came out a month or so back it's on Netflix oh really i have to check that out it's animated it's like a It's in
1:26:11
the same style of animation as as the uh uh the uh Castlevania one so I could get
1:26:17
Yeah that makes sense so it's kind of like a western anime style so um
1:26:24
Duke Nukem while while there's been several aborted attempts to give the character his series of games the
1:26:32
Hollywood treatment it seems Duke Nukem has found the right storyteller with Shanker shanker broke the news that he
1:26:39
acquired the rights to Duke Nukem last week on on Esquire i'm I'm being approached with different IPs and
1:26:46
companies that want to work with me i bought the rights to Duke Nukem shanker shared not the gaming rights but I I
1:26:54
bought it for Gearbox from Gearbox uh Duke Nukem made his debut as a
1:27:02
protagonist in a PC game series when the larger than-l life gruff voiced hero
1:27:08
transitioned to console games in the late 90s and subsequently found its footing
1:27:14
i don't know man that that game for for the PC was was like really uh it took it
1:27:20
took existing games like Doom and Quake and then like added a whole another level to it because it was those games
1:27:27
were hyperviolent and there was lots of running around shooting and it was a 3D um kind of role not role playing game
1:27:35
first person shooter style game and uh and uh plus I mean the the character he
1:27:42
had some of the funniest oneliners And uh I I heard rumors and I have not
1:27:48
verified this but I've seen online that people are saying how Duke Nukem borrows a lot of his catchphrases from uh uh Ash
1:27:56
from the Evil Dead and uh so like yes hail to the king baby and uh you know
1:28:04
all that and uh the guy who the guy who voices Duke Nukem is on on he does live
1:28:09
streams all the time on on TikTok and he will you know people request him to say things and he'll respond to it but uh so
1:28:17
I'm I'm curious as to how this is going to turn out it's probably we're not going to see it for a few years I think
1:28:23
but um see what it says here i I do think they
1:28:29
they got the right guy it sounds like for doing a show based on Duke Nukem yeah he he definitely appear i mean he
1:28:34
obviously has a good track record with this sort of thing but he seems to get it like because he talks about how the
1:28:40
thing with Duke Nukem is it's a middle finger to everybody when Duke Nukem blew up a bunch of people sat around trying
1:28:46
to turn it into a brand he said when it's just a middle finger so I I if if
1:28:53
they make it like an adult uh adult humor type of show yeah i I I I I I hope
1:28:59
they they uh Yeah I hope they definitely make it like not a a a show for kids
1:29:05
that it has to be 18 plus it has to be for adults you can't like Yeah you can't
1:29:12
neuter Duke Nukem and and make it work um and if they did a PG-13 version of
1:29:18
Duke Nukem it just it won't be Duke it'll be somebody else so that's kind of how I feel about that i'm looking
1:29:24
forward to it i don't know it doesn't say uh when it's going to be out but he
1:29:29
just got the rights so he's he's probably at this point not even working on script yet it's early it's early it's
1:29:35
really early so uh next story I have here I did pair it down a little bit because I I didn't want us to go too
1:29:41
terribly long the next story I have here is that looks like there's going to be a another reboot of The Land of the Lost
1:29:49
TV series from the early uh the late 60s early 70s that big as one i remember
1:29:56
watching this as a kid uh as a toddler even and it used to terrify the hell out
1:30:01
of me uh the sleeve stacks were super creepy netflix is partnering with Legendary Entertainment to breathe new
1:30:07
life into the beloved 70s sci-fi adventure series Land of the Lost
1:30:13
uh is what the caption for the image says the the the two the two kids from that show are always doing like live
1:30:20
streams and uh videos on on uh Instagram and I think they were actually here in
1:30:26
Washington a couple years back at a at a place that used to do uh like meet and greets down in Auburn places since uh
1:30:34
closed down they didn't stick around for much longer uh let's see here originally debuted in 1974 Lendel quickly carved
1:30:42
out a unique space in the landscape of classic science fiction the series follows the Marshall family Father Rick
1:30:49
and two childrens Will and Holly uh whose peaceful White River rafting
1:30:55
trip takes a shocking turn when an earthquake sends them tumbling into a bizarre prehistoric realm uh the
1:31:02
mysterious dimension both dangerous and on inspiring uh was filled with
1:31:08
dinosaurs ancient ruins and strange creatures creatures capturing the imaginations of young viewers like
1:31:14
myself with every episode i just remember watching the show and they had giant fruits they had like giant
1:31:21
raspberries and giant strawberries um when they were picking for food uh there
1:31:27
was uh the the dinosaurs were all claymatian so stop motion animation at
1:31:33
its worst um I don't know if you ever saw this Doug you were probably uh not born yet
1:31:40
when it was was on TV originally but uh um they did a a a reboot of sorts in
1:31:47
like the 90s I think where is Well that's what I was That's what I was trying to figure out is I definitely remember watching Land of the Lost as a
1:31:54
kid but I don't think it was the 74 version yeah no you probably want to watch watch the one that's from 91
1:32:01
yeah which I I you know I couldn't have told you how long the show was on when I watched it but apparently went on for
1:32:07
two seasons that makes sense in 91 yeah and uh what's really funny is uh in 2009
1:32:15
Lost received the big screen adaptation with Will Frell reimagining uh the broad
1:32:20
comedy blah blah blah blah blah the thing that cracks me up about him doing this movie is it came out about 10 years
1:32:27
after he played a character in a in Jane Sullenb Strike Back his character name
1:32:33
in that movie was Marshall Willinali willinoli was his last name marshall was
1:32:40
his first name or not Marshall was his job and uh so it was it was a play on
1:32:46
words kind of making fun of uh the land of the lost marshall Will and Holly
1:32:52
um I just remember when I I remember seeing that move that movie going "Did he did he do that on purpose?" And then
1:32:58
of course I saw it in uh like a video commentary for that movie like "Yes that was on purpose." But uh yeah I'm looking
1:33:07
forward to it um I think I first heard about this um
1:33:13
maybe a couple weeks back uh Sid Croft still does live streams on Instagram on
1:33:20
occasion and he'll talk about like um old shows that he's done that he's done
1:33:26
and he's also mentions when they have new versions coming out and he's been working with
1:33:32
is like a like an executive producer kind of giving hey they should do it like this
1:33:38
and that kind of thing but uh but yeah there's that and then uh next story is
1:33:45
uh I didn't know this until just a month or so back but there is a new Toxic
1:33:50
Avenger coming out and I just watched the trailer for it and uh
1:33:56
uh it has it has um it has uh oh [ __ ]
1:34:02
so the first trailer for the Toxic Avenger remake was released in October 2023 and then it's been kind of quiet since
1:34:09
then yeah yeah and they the the least the most recent one I guess is the movie
1:34:14
is being released as unrated so it's it's going to be really violent
1:34:20
well wasn't that like the original toxy movies like be movie schlock with like
1:34:26
major violence and nudity yeah yeah yeah so it's it's it's not being done by trauma this time time it's being done by
1:34:33
uh some other people and I'm sure it says here I did read this but I don't remember what it said um
1:34:41
it's got Peter Dinklage as uh as the lead character uh I mean before he
1:34:48
becomes toxy voicing the lead character well he is the lead character completely but he doesn't he's not in the costume
1:34:54
when he becomes toxy gotcha uh he is the the the he is the the loser before he
1:35:01
becomes toxic and then he becomes the voice of Toxic and they have somebody else doing the the the
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inside the costume so he doesn't have to wear all the prosthetic stuff lucky him right uh yeah uh the the person inside
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the costume her name is Louisa Guerrero guerrero
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uh she's uh she's basically puts on all the prosthetics and she does the acting
1:35:29
he just kind of like matches the lip lip flaps of what she's saying so I don't know the commercial the the trailer that
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I saw uh yesterday it uh this version of toxic the toxic avenger is a little
1:35:43
person was like little tiny person like the original Toxic Avenger the human
1:35:48
character was kind of a dweeb he was like maybe 5 foot six super skinny really like the 80s style nerd and then
1:35:56
uh he became like this big burly dude when he became the toxic Avenger in this
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he's staying the same size he just becomes super strong um
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so the the from what I do remember in the article it says that they took elements from the original movie as well
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as the Toxic Avengers cartoon series from the 80s as far as the visuals and
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and the big Go ahead the cartoon the cartoon series is what I knew the Toxic Avenger from i
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wasn't until I got a little older and found out about the risque movies the
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underrated movies i don't know if I've ever watched the entirety of the movie i think I started watching it like Yeah no
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I turned it off it's really I mean it's it's c classic but it's really poorly
1:36:45
made i mean I think that's why I stopped watching because it was just the acting was atrocious and it's it almost is like
1:36:52
a home movie it does it has It's like a home movie with a budget and and the
1:36:57
budget's maybe a buck 50 um but it's funny because like after Ninja Turtles Toxy was my first like he was the first
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action figure I got with like my own money oh wow i didn't know that yeah that's great and I I had no idea about
1:37:11
the movies at that point i just knew it from the cartoon we'll have to go see this movie when it hits theaters man cuz
1:37:16
I haven't seen And I probably You probably can find those movies online on one of the streaming sites for free u
1:37:23
the original Toxic Avenger I'm sure is probably either on Pluto or it's on on Tuby either one of those two or Pornhub
1:37:30
i don't think it'll be on Pornhub but I mean it would because because of the style of of of storytelling that it is
1:37:37
there's always gratuitous boobs and uh never bush though which is fine but
1:37:43
still um lots of side boob lots of full frontal all that kind of stuff um all
1:37:48
right so it's too bad Hillary never took on George because then we could have had a
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boobs over Bush campaign
1:37:59
right all right so but we did get Bush VGore which sounds like a smut film
1:38:05
i remember uh was it uh Oh God I'm drawing a blank here all right i like
1:38:12
that it has practical effects i like that they're going to see all the you can see all the goopy little boils and
1:38:17
stuff like that they talked about right yeah no that's one of the things I remember from the original movies is there was lots of really obnoxiously
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gross special effects all right I guess now it's time for
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That's some weird [ __ ] some weird [ __ ] where we dig up the
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craziest quirkiest stories that make you go "What the heck just happened?" Buckle up it's about to get weird
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all right i I had just a couple stories two or three stories here um the first
1:38:50
one is that uh I don't know if you've seen these Doug but they've been really popular the last couple weeks uh they're
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all over social media people are using AI to create these viral Bigfoot videos
1:39:02
and it's I have I have not seen these oh my god I am not surprised they are
1:39:07
really really funny it's like man I shouldn't eat that Taco Bell
1:39:13
it's like a Jack Links commercial yeah i mean it's it the the uh they don't look
1:39:19
as they don't look like Bigfoot as much as they look like uh you know like either orangutans or like big apes you
1:39:26
know but uh and it's they're just goofy like couple lines
1:39:32
all you got to do to find them is look up Bigfoot on on social media and they will be one of I think it'll be one of
1:39:38
the first things that pops up but this is what it says here on unexplained mysteries.com
1:39:45
ai generated footage showing Bigfoot vlogging about his day has been showing up everywhere recently bigfoot seems to
1:39:52
have become something of an internet celebrity over the last few weeks thanks to new AI video generation tool enabling
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just about anyone to create vlog style clips the videos which are actually
1:40:06
quite impressive visually show one or more Bigfoot type creatures getting up
1:40:11
to their daily activities in the woods while talking directly to the camera yes
1:40:17
apparently Bigfoot speak uh speaks perfect English and has an American accent these guys must not be from
1:40:23
America of course he would you know I almost expected him to kind
1:40:29
of have a southern accent you know but he's more of a Northwest guy he's definitely a Northwest guy in these
1:40:35
videos because he sounds like everybody from around here um what was particularly remarkable is how
1:40:43
easily it is to produce videos like this google's V3 video generator can create
1:40:48
entire videos based on little more than a textual input from the user that said
1:40:54
subscriptions to the service are not exactly cheap if you haven't seen any of the AI Bigfoot vlogs before you can
1:41:02
check out this one below you know you know what i I think I should be able to play the audio from it at least
1:41:09
hey everyone and welcome back to the channel a lot of you have been asking why I'm so rarely caught on camera
1:41:17
this is why you humans never see me hey is it playing
1:41:22
so uh those humans I uh talked to they said they won't tell anyone had to cut that part out i'm not hearing it for uh
1:41:29
reasons oh you're not oh and I forgot to mention those humans they gave me their phones too always helps keep the vlogs
1:41:36
going okay guys i'm going to play the whole thing it's it's it's like a minute and 30 seconds long that was like the
1:41:42
first 30 seconds um it was show the audio is showing up on the recording so
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you should be able to hear it there um but yeah it's uh it's uh yeah like I
1:41:54
said just search for Bigfoot vlog V LG and uh and it's uh there's a bunch of
1:42:01
them now i've seen at least a half a dozen of these things in the last couple weeks they're very funny and uh I
1:42:09
actually I'd never I didn't even bother to look up what what AI thing they're
1:42:14
using because I figured I don't want to be another person to kind of jump on that bandwagon and just not have it go
1:42:20
anywhere uh so yeah I didn't bother but yeah no I've seen a lot of those and
1:42:26
when I saw this article I was like that that's hilarious uh all right so this last story I have here
1:42:33
I've I've seen this before and I think I almost included it like a month ago on
1:42:39
an episode but I found some better stories to talk about but I so I decided to go ahead and play to go ahead and
1:42:44
pull it up this time screeching Lank at Gull is the goal of this birdrained
1:42:50
contest the European Goching Championship attracted 60 seagull
1:42:55
seagull noises seagull soundes from 14 countries to the coastal town of Deep
1:43:03
Pane in Belgium uh this past week yeah
1:43:08
okay uh this past weekend and this came out in May so it was been a a couple
1:43:15
months at least so it says it is it it's good to have a goal even if it's
1:43:21
screeching like a seagull and that was the aim of the fifth annual
1:43:26
European golf screeching championship which attracted screeching 60 seagull
1:43:32
sound alikes from 14 countries to the coastal town this past weekend according
1:43:37
to Boing Boing contestants were awarded points based on their sound and
1:43:44
performance in the in three categories adult junior and con
1:43:50
that's a group of girls okay the contest is intended to create more
1:43:56
positive image of the seabirds which have been called trash birds beach rats
1:44:03
klepto gulls by naysayers klepto goals i love that one that one's awesome i would
1:44:09
have just called them uh uh well those are all really good ones i always just thought they were just like like crows
1:44:16
but uh but like gentrified crows um
1:44:23
gulls are known to be intrusive uh to be so intrusive that the zoo in Blackpool
1:44:29
England hired people to dress up like dress up in inflatable eagle costumes to
1:44:34
scare the birds away that's great the the goals won't get any
1:44:42
hate from Denmark's Anna Brinald who took gold in the quirky
1:44:48
contest i like that the seagulls like fries because I love fries and they're just a
1:44:55
bit misunderstood like me and they're cute one time I saw a I was at Cedar
1:45:01
Point Ohio and I saw a seagull swallow another bird whole
1:45:06
i I don't doubt it we were I was eating my fried cheese on a stick that I got that that's your
1:45:14
point there and feeding French fries to the little sparrows and a little sparrow took a French fry and then a seagull
1:45:21
just took him and just just reared back and swallowed him whole alive
1:45:27
well I mean the funny thing is with when it comes to seagulls I always think of uh Finding Nemo mine my mine mine and
1:45:35
that's exactly how I mean the the voice actors who did those characters in that movie um they they
1:45:43
definitely embodied that that that that screeching sound that these animals make
1:45:49
these birds uh she says uh she was slightly under uh hold up she admits um
1:45:58
practicing for the bird brain contest had its challenges i I worked with the
1:46:03
seagulls i I I went to the beach and looked at many seagulls and I thought
1:46:09
they looked nice and I screeched at them and they became scared of me she said
1:46:15
"Maybe I'm saying something wrong in seagull language." I don't know oh my god do Do we want to hear some of this
1:46:21
do from the video oh I can play Yeah I can play some of the video hold on i won't hear it evidently but I'll when I
1:46:27
listen back I'll get to hear it yeah yeah this what is this is uh at the
1:46:35
one one hour 46 minutes i'll go ahead and play it you can pull it up
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[Music] people think seagulls are uh oh wow uh annoying
1:46:51
some people hate them uh they see them like rats of the sea they screech a lot they make a lot of noise they leave
1:46:57
their droppings everywhere just part of the sea coast so you need to balance that we need some more simp no we don't
1:47:04
we don't really need to be you know they're basically like yeah we need to be neither to them because
1:47:12
because people see them as just noise and there's crap everywhere and Yeah yeah no I I I'm not saying be mean
1:47:20
to them but you don't have to be nice to them yeah yeah don't be cruel to animals i I
1:47:27
you know but yeah I can see why people don't really want seagulls around i mean
1:47:33
I've enjoyed feeding seagulls in my life but I mean probably not the best it's It's
1:47:38
one thing if if it's just one or two but if there's like 30 or 40 of them and they're all like demanding you feed them
1:47:46
no no no no no i I I I don't even like feeding like th those birds at parks and
1:47:52
stuff because that means that they're not actively looking for their own food they're just waiting for somebody else
1:47:58
to show up and give them food i don't even like doing that to the animals in the house so um yeah no
1:48:05
that's that's it all that's all I got for today um I had a couple more but like I said I finn them up because I
1:48:10
think we were running a little a little long today i didn't want You had a nice full show yeah i wasn't sure how long my
1:48:16
sections would take they they took plenty of time as a Wasn't sure I wasn't sure how long to I
1:48:23
mean I don't mind us talking for a couple hours that's fine and it's that's not uncommon for a podcast to go for
1:48:29
about 90 minutes to to to whatever well and like you pointed out if anybody gets
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bored during a particular segment they can always skip ahead exactly all right um and I think that is it for today
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